Feed the Feed - How to Populate the Real Time Web
Now that search engines like Google and Bing are incorporating status updates from Twitter and Facebook, getting your content into peoples' feeds has become more important than ever. Sites like The Huffington Post that are Facebook Connect enabled are seeing tremendous traffic growth from just newsfeeds, and this will be magnified by their links showing up in search results. So how can a Facebook Connect enabled site easily add engagement features that entice users to post links into their newsfeeds?We at Transpond call populating the real time web "feed the feed", and the late

How Facebook Will Become the Top Ad Network
Facebook Connect is growing like a wildflower through websites, dramatically increasing registrations and logins now that users do not need to remember an account and password, and also driving traffic when users publish website activity to their Facebook newsfeeds and draw clicks from their friends.Now when a user goes to a Facebook Connect enabled website, the website contacts Facebook to get their Profile photo and name. Since Facebook knows a lot about people from their Facebook profiles, it lets advertisers place super targeted

Will Twitter Get 250m New Users or Will Facebook Copy its Features
Which of these is more likely to happen:(1) Twitter adds 250 million new users that use it regularly.(2) Facebook copies all of Twitter's features.As I wrote in March, it is not difficult Facebook to copy all of Twitter's features, and they have since shamelessly done so.Think of your stay-at-home mom in the midwest that is using Facebook to keep in touch with all her friends. She wants to subscribe to businesses to get deals and see what her favorite TV stars have to say. What's she going to do? Try out Twitter with its lack of inline photos and videos an

The Accelerating Speed of Business
The way that Internet companies do business has fundamentally changed over the past couple of years. Platforms like Facebook and the iPhone have accelerated from nothing to ubiquity in just a year or two. How can a business keep up?Well how does Facebook itself operate? Scrum style engineering. Bold new features that are pushed out and then iterated. Marketing is accomplished via blogs and PR. Sales are self-service, and some features such as Apps are free.Here's a summary of how the new way of operating impacts each functional area of a social Internet company:WiredTired